Azimuth
Azimuth will offer students a summer of focused discovery within
the United States that will seek to explore the integration of
a deep interest with a legitimate community need.
The inspiration for Azimuth comes from Fredrick Buechner's often
quoted definition of vocation as "the place where your deep
Gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." (Frederick Buechner,
Wishful Thinking, 119.) In a recent gathering of students from
diverse backgrounds and experiences, one common refrain that
we heard was that the Wooster experience is so academically intense
that there is little opportunity for students to explore passionate
interests that exist outside of their academic studies. They
pointed out that students are often identified and defined by
their majors and given little time or opportunity to expand the
definition or explore new identities. As a direct result of our
students' request, Azimuth was created as part of Wooster's Lilly
Project.
We will be looking for serious and creative students who are
willing to take the risk of investing their time and talents
in a community through shared action and reflection. Each applicant
must work with a community that has a need as well as a demonstrated
capacity to assist the student with his or her theological and
vocational reflection. These communities will bring to bear the
concrete living experiences that provide historical, practical,
and cultural nuances to enrich the student's learning and reflection.
A successful Azimuth proposal will consist of the following:
• The experience must be located within a community
with a demonstrated capacity to assist the student with vocational
and theological reflection;
• Students must present their experience and reflection upon it with the
campus community upon return.
• Students are eligible to apply for awards to be used during the summer
of their sophomore or junior year and may only receive one award;
• The experiential aspect must not be used for academic credit or to supplement
direct curricular research.
Azimuth Students for the summer of 2007
Jack Boyle
Antonia Clement
Elise Meyers
Mark Schneider
Azimuth Students for the summer of 2006
Julia Hendrickson
Wahguru Khalsa
Sarah Lloyd
Christina Shiroma
Azimuth Students for the summer of 2005:
Anshuman
Bagaria
Hai Dang Nguyen
Tina Swartzendruber
Azimuth Students and their faculty mentors for the
summer of 2004:
Aung Nay
Anne Guthrie
Shoshana Raskas
Elizabeth Roesch
